Co-producing Democratic Cities in Unequal Times

DAY 1 – 16th Nov ’26 – Nanterre (Université Paris Nanterre)

Learning from FAIRVILLE : Inequality, risk and democratic vulnerability

Focus on how urban inequalities are produced through housing systems, environmental exposure and uneven protection from climate risks, and how these processes shape democratic capacity across cities. The morning brings together academic and practitioner perspectives with FAIRVILLE cases to examine unequal urbanisation and its political implications.

The afternoon shifts the discussion toward co-production in conditions of democratic fragmentation, asking what it can enable and where its limits lie. It focuses on epistemic justice, co-production tools (co-mapping, co-evaluation, counter-manuals) and the politics of knowledge production, linking methods to broader theoretical questions that have guided the project.